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Presidential Retribution (Executive Watch)

Trump Yet Again Pushes FCC to Ignore the First Amendment and Punish ABC for Not Firing Jimmy Kimmel
Donald Trump already tried to fire Jimmy Kimmel once for making fun of him.
 • Executive Watch
Trump's New DOJ Lackeys' Bogus Indictment of James Comey Violates the First Amendment to Advance His Retribution Agenda
Donald Trump has had to burn through a lot of Justice Department officials because they wouldn’t set their reputations on fire to pursue a petty revenge…
 • Executive Watch
The DOJ Targets SPLC for Infiltrating White Nationalists and Helping FBI Do Its Job
A hallmark of the Trump administration is its tolerance of overt racists, so it seems fitting that they would now be prosecuting the Southern Poverty…
 • Executive Watch
FBI Targets the Reporter Who Exposed that Kash Patel's Girlfriend Was Obtaining Free Perks From the Agency
Donald Trump has been itching to make reporting itself into a crime, and now some of his minions at the FBI are inching toward finding the way to do it…
 • Executive Watch
The Administration Threatened the Pope With Dire Consequences if He Didn't Back Off His Criticism of Trump's Wars
The Trump administration’s professions of religious piety have always been repeated with greater vehemence than credibility, but it is still shocking to…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Threatens CNN for Allegedly Fake Reporting About His Iran Cave-In
Trump and his loyalist FCC Chairman Brendan Carr keep threatening to abuse their power to punish Trump’s political enemies.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Is Continuing to Weaponize the Justice System Against James Comey for Investigating Russian Election Interference
Donald Trump has suffered repeated setbacks in his attempts to gin up bogus federal prosecutions of his political enemies—but he keeps trying.
 • Executive Watch
DHS Targets Hundreds of US Citizens With Bogus Prosecutions for Protesting ICE
Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign is supposed to target illegal immigrants.
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s DOJ Is Systematically Launching Bogus Lawsuits Against its Enemies to Harass Them
The Trump administration keeps threatening its enemies with legal retribution, only to have the cases fail—as was the case with the six members of…
 • Executive Watch
CBS Attempts to Censor Stephen Colbert at the Behest of Trump’s FCC
Stephen Colbert announced that his CBS show—already on the chopping block to curry favor with the Trump administration—was blocked from interviewing a…
 • Executive Watch
FTC Targets an Ad Agency for Using a Fact-Checking Site That Rates Some Right-Wing Outfits as Unreliable
The one consistent enemy of the Trump administration is fact-checking.
 • Executive Watch
Federal Agents Arrest Journalist Don Lemon for Committing Journalism in Minnesota
The Trump administration has been seeking to prosecute protesters who disrupted a Minnesota church service led by a pastor who is also an ICE official.
 • Executive Watch
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